Gonzales nomination hearing transcript [US Senate Judiciary Committee]

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Gonzales nomination hearing transcript [US Senate Judiciary Committee]

January 6, 2005 05:34:00 pm

Transcript from the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Alberto Gonzalez to be US Attorney General, January 6, 2005. Read the transcript text from the Washington Post here.

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